Charlot Pierpont

Charlot Pierpont (1775-) was a Colonel of the French Army who fought in the Peninsular War and Napoleonic Wars.

Biography
Charlot Pierpont was born in Avesnes-le-Sec in 1775 to an aristocratic French family, and his family purchased him a commission in the French Army in 1793. He commanded a regiment of Chasseurs a Cheval during the War of the Pyrenees against Spain, and served under Joachim Murat in Egypt and Europe from 1798 to 1808. That year, he was re-posted to Basque Country in Spain during the Peninsular War.

Pierpont took command of an army of Basque and Navarrese militiamen in 1811 to fight against Spanish rebels in the country, winning the Battle of Borja against Francisco de Anchia's Spanish army in late April 1811 and the Battle of Navarra in early May. In early June, he took over Vitoria-Gasteiz from the Spanish general Jose Palafox y Melzi, returning the region to French control.